Kate Moss For Playboy: Are The Rumours True?

WHILE Kate Moss has so far refused to confirm speculation that she will appear on the cover of Playboy's 60thanniversary issue, the latest rumours suggest that she has also commissioned a piece of artwork by American painter Chuck Close based on the images.

Reports first emerged several months ago linking the supermodel with the publication - but nothing has yet been confirmed, with representatives on behalf of both Moss and the magazine declining to comment. If true, the issue would be due out in January - which would also neatly coincide with the model's 40th birthday.

According to reports, fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott have already photographed Moss for the cover - with hairstylist Oribe Canales apparently letting slip that he'd styled her hair for the shoot. While Moss has never posed for Playboy before, a handful of her supermodel contemporaries have appeared on the cover in the past - including Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford, Eva Herzigova and Elle Macpherson.

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And a nude shoot is hardly new ground for the 39-year-old, who appeared naked in new adverts for St Tropez just last month. She has also featured in several nude shoots for British Vogue, posing entirely naked for the January 1995 cover, and topless for the April 1999 issue - both photographed by Nick Knight.

Whether or not there's any truth in the stories remains to be seen, but sometimes rumours become so intense that they are impossible to ignore. As a Kate Moss Playboy cover would be.

This article was first published in the April 1999 issue of Vogue magazine